The piece also looked at the implications of cozying up to the highly subsidized in a Republican primary field where being a staunch conservative is the only job requirement and how crop insurance subsidies are still government payments even if other GOP hopefuls like them.

Then on Friday Wisconsin Governor and GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker announced his Iowa Leadership Team. With over 60 names and Iowa’s heavily subsidized agriculture sector, it seemed the potential was there to overtake Bush’s team in Uncle Sam’s generosity.

Alas, Walker’s team’s subsidies came in at $4,321,904. While still impressive that’s still less than half of Bush’s $9.2 million.

It’s also notable that Scott Walker is on a misguided mission to drug test food stamp recipients. This raises the question, shouldn’t the same standards apply to other beneficiaries of federal welfare? As the Washington Post’s Emily Badger wrote, ‘We rarely make similar demands of other recipients of government aid. We don’t drug-test farmers who receive agriculture subsidies.”

Pretty sure getting drug tested before the government cuts you a check is something the list below won’t have to contend with in a Walker administration. Here’s what the database spits out about Scott Walker’s farm team’s subsidies, both either direct or subsidies paid to farms they have ownership stakes in: